News Tibits7 December 1889

Office of Publication:Badger Building,
Southeast corner of the Public Square.

Terms of Subscription:
One Copy One Year.....................$1.25
One Copy Six Months................... .75
One Copy Three Months............... .50

A good many of our citizens took advantage of the low excursion rates
on the A. & N. W. and I. & G. N. roads on Thanksgiving day, and
went to Austin, San Antonio and other points.

PORK FOR SALE -- 5 cents net a pound. P. R. Purcell, Sage.

Except for the closing of the Post office and the Bank, you would not
have known that it was Thanksgiving day last Thursday. There
wasn't a preacher in town to conduct religious services if one had been
preferred. Rev. Bell was called to McNeill to see a sick friend, and Rev. Sherman had to go to Austin.

TO THE PUBLIC:
The undersigned has purchased Mr. Warren's Meat Market
interest, and respectfully asks the patronage of the Public. We
promise by furnishing the best meats the country affords and by fair
prices and attention to deserve it.

Wanted -- Hides and Furs, for which the highest market prices will be paid. Respectfully, J. F. Neely

O that we had a thousand subscribers like Frank Alexander of Morgan Creek. He knows to a day when his time is out, and pays in advance every time for "the old lady."

It is said that the train coming from Austin on Thanksgiving day was
crowded, and that a considerable number of men and boys were under the
influence of liquor. Wherever we go, "the trail of the serpent is
over us all."

The Colored school, under direction of the teacher, Miss Ida V. Norris, had a very clever Thanksgiving service at the Baptist church at night.